Publishing

Publishing

Open Web Platform

Open Web Platform

The Open Web Platform is the collection of technologies
and standards from W3C, IETF, ECMA, Unicode and others...

The name is attributed to Jeff Jaffe, CEO of W3C

Includes HTML, CSS, SVG, MathML, JavaScript, and much much more.

OWP and Publishing

Web-based (in-browser) editing…

Using (X)HTML and CSS for formatting…

JavaScript for programming…

SVG, MathML, Canvas, much more

What is Publishing?

What is Publishing?

By publishing I mean
primarily commercial and academic publishing:
the process of
producing books, magazines, newspapers, journals,
both items that traditionally have been printed
and works that have always been digital...

This excludes informal activities such as tweeting,
twerping, blogging, facebooking, and other gerunding
activities.

OWP and Gaps

Web-based (in-browser) editing and trust…

Incompatible reader devices;…

Use of draft or unstable features…

Formatting limitations…

Metdata fragmentation…

Prepress and finishing not yet handled

A Bigger Problem

The Web was not made for professional publishing.

Formatting Example

Formatting Example

Multiple streams of footnotes…

Footnotes at all…

Hyphenation…

Crop, Bleed, Spreads, Binding & Finishing…

Distribution, and . . .

Metadata

Metadata

Which books do I have?…

Who wrote this Web page?…

How do I link to another ebook?…

Whose Metadata standards do we use?…

Panik

Who is W3C?

Who is W3C?

W3C is the technical standards
organization responsible for the World Wide Web.